President Joe Biden at his first news conference Thursday left the door open to pushing for fundamental changes in Senate procedures to muscle key elements of his agenda such as immigration and voting rights past firm Republican opposition “if there’s complete lockdown and chaos.”

• The 78-year-old president also, for the first time, said his “plan is to run for reelection, that is my expectation, AP reported

The entire confrence is below, it must be noted the confrence was mostly staged, the President had a list of all the selected reporters and which order he would call on them.

Here are some of the highlights:

The arrival of migrants at the southern border has not changed from President Donald Trump’s term, according to President Joe Biden. However, as Breitbart pointed out :

Some of the raise consists of single adults who are counted multiple times as they try and fail repeatedly to cross the border.

The official numbers also exclude the rising inflow of single adults who do sneak across the border. An agency source told Breitbart News on March 24 that roughly 130,000 adults sneaked through the border during Marsh.

• Biden also suggested that Trump is responsible for the apparent migration increase by failing to build up the processing capacity needed to avoid a traffic jam at the border
• Basic election integrity efforts led by GOP lawmakers in D.C. and state legislatures are “un-American” and “sick,” making “Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” President Joe Biden said during his first presidential press conference Thursday.
• Biden echoed the rhetoric touted by progressives in the House and Senate, voicing urgent concerns over basic election integrity measures pursued by Republicans.

“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick. Deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote. Deciding that you’re going to end voting at 5 o’clock when working people are just getting off work. Deciding that there will no absentee ballots under the most rigid circumstances,” Biden said, concluding that it is “all designed.

“And I’m going to spend my time doing three things,” he continued.  “One, trying to figure out how to pass the legislation passed by the House, number one. Number two, educating the American public. The Republican voters I know find this despicable. … I’m not talking about the elected officials. I’m talking about voters. Voters.”

Biden said he is “convinced” that Democrats will be able to stop basic election integrity measures, which Democrats routinely describe as forms of “voter suppression,” adding that such proposals make “Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”

• President Joe Biden claimed “the vast majority of families who are coming” to the United States are being removed and that “they’re not getting across the border.”

VERDICT: Mostly false. While more than 70,000 border crossers have been removed from the U.S. using the Center for Disease Control’s Title 42 authority, implemented by former President Donald Trump, Biden’s administration has released more than 23,400 border crossers into the U.S. interior since taking office.

Since Biden revamped the Catch and Release program, though, more than 23,400 border crossers have been released into the U.S. interior after being apprehended at the southern border. Thousands more have entered the U.S., illegally, undetected by federal immigration officials,Breitbart pointed out.

• Several reporters asked Biden questions about the border, about migration, and about conditions in the facilities where the migrants, particularly unaccompanied minors, are held. Asked to commit to allowing the media to visit the facilities, Biden said: “I will commit when my plan very shortly is under way” and when he was “in a position to implement” his policy- Breitbart pointed out

Jessica Rodriguez of Univision, who was given the last question of the press conference, asked Biden about the “root causes” of migration: “How do you realistically and physically keep these families from coming to the U.S. when things will not get better in their countries right away?”

Biden, who had wandered away from the podium, answered:

Well, I can’t guarantee that. But I know, you know, that old thing: “The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.” You know as well as I do — you cover it — you have — it’s not like someone sitting at a hand-hewn table in Guatemala, I mean, in somewhere in Mexico, or in Guadalupe, saying, “I got a great idea. Let’s sell everything we have, give it to a coyote, have him take our kids across the border into the desert, where they don’t speak the language, won’t that be fun?”

He said that people don’t want to leave their home countries but are desperate enough to risk the journey.

Gallup CEO Jim Clifton warned on Wednesday that up to 42 million people living in Central and Southern America want to migrate to the United States, Breitbart pointed out.